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    The surname Shockey

    A surname, carried by 4,467 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex S200

    Shockey: #7,461 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Shockey #7,461, 4,467 people Shockey: #7,461 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Shockey #7,461, 4,467 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Shockey is more common than 95.4% of them.

    Origin

    A surname.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 4,467 people named Shockey in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 69,117 Americans. That is up 1.4% since 2000, when the Census counted 4,406.

    #7,461
    rank among US surnames
    4,467
    people in 2010
    1.5
    per 100,000 Americans
    +1.4%
    change since 2000 (was #7,013)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #7,455Dressler4,47069,071
    #7,457Bessette4,46969,086
    #7,459Swaney4,46869,102
    #7,461Shockey4,46769,117
    #7,463Herren4,46669,132
    #7,465Boyett4,46569,148

    Who is named Shockey

    Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census

    94% of people named Shockey identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.7% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.2% as two or more races.

    • White (not Hispanic) 94%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.7%
    • Two or more races 1.2%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.8%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.6%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 0.4%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Shockey

    Shockey has the Soundex code S200, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code S200.

    Questions

    How common is the surname Shockey?
    4,467 people in the United States had the surname Shockey in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 69,117 Americans. It ranked 7,461st of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Shockey?
    In the 2010 Census, 94% of people named Shockey identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.7% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
    Is the surname Shockey getting more or less common?
    More common. 4,406 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 4,467 in 2010, up 1.4%.